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First established as a trade settlement, the castle later became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade. The Dutch seized the fort from the Portuguese in 1637, after an unsuccessful attempt in 1596, and took over all of the Portuguese Gold Coast in 1642.
26 maj 2024 · The slave trade at Elmina Castle finally ended in 1814 when the British abolished the practice, though they continued to use the fort as a military installation and even a prison into the 20th century, including incarcerating King Prempeh I of the Ashanti for four years in the 1890s.
23 lip 2018 · Under the auspices of the Dutch West Indies Company, around 30,000 slaves a year passed through Elmina until 1814 when the Dutch slave trade was abolished. Ceded to the British in 1872, Elmina Castle was rarely in use until Ghana’s independence from the Britain in 1957.
Zamek w Elminie, znany także jako Zamek Elmina oraz Zamek Św. Jerzego w Elminie (port. Castelo de São Jorge da Mina) – zamek i zespół fortyfikacji w Elminie, Regionie Centralnym w Ghanie.Wybudowany w latach 1482–1486 przez portugalskich kolonialistów jako osada handlowa (wtedy znana jako São Jorge da Mina), Zamek w Elminie jest najstarszą fortyfikacją europejskich kolonistów w ...
Elmina Castle, perched on the southern coast of Ghan a, harbors a harrowing history that is intertwined with the dark saga of the African slave trade. This UNESCO heritage site was established by the Portuguese in the 15th century.
27 lip 2018 · First built in 1482 as a Portuguese trading settlement, the 91,000 sq foot behemoth was one of the principal slave depots in the transatlantic slave trade for more than three centuries.
